Richard Jefferies

Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life.The first...

Civilization has fallen, nature has reclaimed her throne, and the once-great city of London is now a deadly, toxic swamp.Centuries after an unexplained cataclysm wiped out the modern world, Britain has reverted to a savage wilderness. The remnants of...

Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Standard’ in 1868 and also started to write articles and pamphlets on various agricultural issues and local...